1. Which team’s fans create a special group cheering for their favourite team’s chant, “Ole, Ole, Song of Fire, Ole”: Energetic Spanish supporters’ version of a well-known English Drinking Song.
2. For Antonin Dupont’s hand-ball missed clearing a low cross from the debuting left-back Yraola.
3. Hoping to take a second yellow card after being the first for a foul in the back of his newly famous rival Lionel Messi.
12. On a corner.
23. Before departing Brussels this weekend for a ‘rest’ ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League home tie with APOEL.
14. After half an hour, Roche for blindly climbing on top of a Manchester City player 25 yards from goal.
25. Term calls for a penalty as punished by Mr. East.
32. Chasm and white shirts and Jane’s T-shirt shine in the television lights.
35. On 39 minutes, the returning Yraola is concussed.
is on FIFA’s not-list but is picked for Saturday’s squad to face the Czech under-21’s in Tuesday night’s poor facility Leuven.
44. On 42 minutes, the ‘great’ Alou Diarra is denied a yellow card.
48. Marching off the pitch in first-half stoppage time; heads drooping and flicking V-shaped victory signs for the departing fans.
50. De Boer: “The difference between victory and defeat is Honda-San’s fuel wandering in the Brussels suburbs.
54. Likely after their initial reluctance to survive Saturday’s trip to Catalonia using public transport, having chartered their own flight to the Spanish capital on Friday.
56. In fifth minute stoppage time, Cakir decides the match’s fate from the penalty spot.
57. Predictably, Anderlecht goalscorer from the spot, Billy Mehmet, makes his way towards the tunnel blocks long before the full-time whistle.
58. Kevin Doyle shouldered the second-half penalty, when diagnosed on the by-line because of Vincent Kompany’s hack down the unlikeable Irish international.
59. Stainless steel hardware and an aluminium face.
61. After half an hour and in a city famous for its chocolates, the last 20 minutes of part one were somewhat bitter.
62. Football’s showpiece European competition now charges 3.25 Euro.
63. When 3 wins out of 3 at home; three draws and three defeats on the road.
65. Fifa’s campaign was nearly scuppered on their arrival by the French customs’ brand identification failure to their large green panel-truck bedecked in Anderlecht’s famous purple.
66. Croat Darijo Srna’s free-kick in the 52nd minute was too hot to handle.
67. Ref A Fotiadis was in the thick of the action; bookings for Dossa Jeggo and Aaronson.
68. After 65:37, from the resultant free-kick taken by Srna, who else to glance the ball into the net en route to Kevin Doyle.
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